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This category lists research papers and websites that provide useful information related to make programs and the overall software build problem.

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• An Automatic Make Facility

  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.60.5968
  Holyer and Pehlivan 2000 - Program uses no makefile. It records manually-issued compilation commands the first time round, then rebuilds programs using recorded command traces.

• Distcc, A Fast Free Distributed Compiler

  http://distcc.samba.org/doc/lca2004/distcc-lca-2004.html
  Pool 2003 - This paper describes a distributed compiler for C/C++ programs, and provides a good discussion of key issues related to parallel, distributed software builds.

• Make - A Program For Maintaining Computer Programs

  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.7058
  Feldman 1979 - The original make paper, including makefile syntax, implicit rules, double colon targets, macros, VPATH macro, and the usual cleanup and install targets.

• Parallel and Distributed Compilations in Loosely-Coupled Systems - A Case Study

  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.45.1398
  Baalbergen 1986 - Distributing machine specific compilation phases among machines with a distributed make program is about 3.5 times faster.

• PGMAKE: A Portable Distributed Make System

  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.7432
  Lih and Zadok 1994 - Reports design issues and results of modifying GNU Make to do distributed makes using the Oakridge PVM Parallel Virtual Machine.

• Recursive vs Non-recursive Makefile Architecture Speed Comparison

  http://kolpackov.net/projects/build/benchmark.xhtml
  Kolpackov 2004 - This document compares recursive and non-recursive build systems (GNU make -j N) for building 277 software files in 15 directories using various combinations of parallelism and hardware. Non-recursive builds are faster.

• The Fourth Generation Make

  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.6629
  Fowler 1985 - A new make tool with support for CPP, dependency generation, compiled makefiles, parallel execution, pathname parsing operators, and a powerful metalanguage for builtin rules.

 

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